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The Council, in its Conclusions of 2005, instructed the European Commission to monitor
progress in the EU and all Member States and to produce a report every two years. This is the
third biennial report on PCD progress prepared by the Commission.
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It aims to report: a) on
progress made by the EU and its Member States in making their policies more coherent with
development cooperation objectives, focusing on those sectors identified as priority
challenges for the PCD exercise, b) on the recent activities to ensure better monitoring and
implementation of the PCD process, and c) on the main lessons learned and challenges ahead.
The present document focuses specifically on the actions taken, progress made and priorities
pursued by EU institutions and Member States during the period 2009-2011. In preparation
for this report, Member States, the Commission services and the European External Action
Service were asked to respond to a questionnaire. Twenty-five replies were received from the
Member States between April and September 2011. Based on these findings, the document
also identifies the main challenges and outstanding issues for the next period.
In addition to the strengthened legal basis for PCD in the Lisbon Treaty, thereby confirming its important place in EU development policy, policy coherence requires special attention and active participation of all actors ( i.e. EU institutions, Member States’ administrations and civil society) to ensure real results. It is equally important to promote PCD both at EU and at national levels.The Council, in its Conclusions of 2005, instructed the European Commission to monitor progress in the EU and all Member States and to produce a report every two years. This is the third biennial report on PCD progress prepared by the Commission.
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